Can I reload xserver-xorg-input-mouse
driver on the fly? For example, after I modify and recompile the source
In an email from Peter Hutterer, who maintains a lot of the Xorg input stack:
right now, you can't unload a module without restarting the server. patches to support that were floating around at some point but never got merged.
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I mailed him about something else and asked this question as a side-note. If you really need it, you might be able to find those patches on the Xorg-devel list archive. I haven't looked... – Andrew Lundin Oct 1 '13 at 3:47
xinput disable <device name>; rmmod psmouse
(replace binary in/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input
)modprobe psmouse; xinput enable <device name>
. But I think it's still using the old driver. I must be missing something... – Andrew Lundin Jun 18 '13 at 4:54